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General quotes

Jesus: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Matthew 10, 34-39 (NT)

Apostle Paul: Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them. Romans 2, 14-15 (NT) New International Version (NIV)

Personal avowals

I am interested in recognizing that fine line between relational passion and avoidant intensities. There were moments when my passionate nature was a direct reflection of my aliveness, but there were so many moments when I was just using intensity and drama as a coping strategy, a way to actually hide from a deeper experience of the moment, some kind of addictive anti-mellow drama that procrastinated my relationship with reality. Somewhere below the dramas was my real life, waiting in the wings to be lived. It was scary, but it called to me, reminding me that there is more to this life than a sidestepping of the inner world. This struggle for authenticity lives at the heart of the soulshaping journey. There is the avoidant life, and then there is the one that is vulnerably true. Jeff Brown, M.A., Canadian lawyer, psychologist, body-centered psychotherapist, author, Facebook comment, 8. February 2011

Your soul's voice is a transmission only you can give. Emerging women,➤ do not be afraid of your power, ➤ let your voice transmit all of who you are. […] [D]are to speak Goddess, not English. Life longs to hear you.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) US American painter, playwright, essayist, poet, author, George James Firmage, editor, Miscellany. A Miscellany, A Poet's Advice, S. 13, 1958

Being honest may not get you many friends but it'll always get you the right ones. John Lennon (1940-1980) English musician, singer-songwriter, founding member of the British music band The Beatles, source unknown

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. John Lennon (1940-1980) English musician, singer-songwriter, founding member of the British music band The Beatles, source unknown

What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding. Michael MeadeMosaicvoices.org, US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokesman in the Men's Movement, author, Facebook comment, 6. September 2016

As we strive to improve our game, a clear and firm sense of self is a compass that helps us navigate choices and progress toward our goals. When we're looking to change our game, a too rigid self-concept becomes an anchor that keeps us from sailing forth. Article by Herminia Ibarra, Ph.D., US American professor of organizational behavior, professor of leadership and learning, The Authenticity Paradox, presented by the bimonthly management magazine Harvard Business Review (HBR), published by Harvard Business Publishing, January-February issue 2015

The task of calling things by their true names, of telling the truth to the best of our abilities, of knowing how we got here, of listening particularly to those who have been silenced in the past, of seeing how the myriad stories fit together and break apart, of using any privilege we may have been handed to undo privilege or expand its scope is each of our tasks. It's how we make the world. Rebecca Solnit (*1961) US American culture historian, journalist, writer, The Mother of All Questions, Haymarket Books, pocket book, 7. March 2017, cited in: Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression, presented by free weekly digest Brain Pickings, host Maria Popova (*1984) Bulgarian critic, blogger, writer, 20. March 2017

Insights

The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that each life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul. Michael MeadeMosaicvoices.org, US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokesman in the Men's Movement, author, Facebook comment, 8. May 2017

Our soul's voice reveals our deepest wisdom and our deepest wounds, which is why unleashing our soul's voice is often our deepest desire and our deepest fear. We ache to be self-expressed, to be authentic, to totally let 'er rip and yet we are terrified of being that vulnerable, that raw, that real. So we edit, shape or even shut up our unique soul's voice in order to be accepted, successful, and even loved. But deep down in our bellies, where our power burns the brightest, we know we cannot be of service, we cannot be free, we cannot truly come alive if we aren't sharing the truth of who we are.Sera Beak, US American scholar of comparative world religions, spiritual activist (redvolutionary), mentor, speaker, author, Facebook entry 12. December 2014

It is better to be disliked for who you are than to be liked for who you are not. How much easier to be authentic than to pretend to be someone you are not. What a relief just to be. How clear and simple. How honest. How real. The only thing you really have to share with anyone, anyway, is your own state of being. Judith Indira Ann Parsons, US American angel reader, counselor, author, The Clear and Simple Way. A Book of Angel Lessons, 2007

Your reputation is in the hands of others. The only thing you can control is your character. Dr. Wayne Dyer (1940-2015) US American self-help advocate, spiritual lecturer, author, source unknown

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection. Oprah Winfrey (*1954) US American talk show host, actress, visionary, billionaire, philanthropist, presented by the US American monthly magazine O, The Oprah Magazine, date unknown

Authenticity is being in touch with yourself and being able to act up your awareness of self in relationship to the environment. So if I feel something I pay attention to that, if I don't I am in danger. If a child is confronted with a dilemma that 'If I am authentic, express my feelings, then my attachment needs are threatened, because my parents can't handle it, because they are too stressed, depressed, or traumatized themselves', then per fores the child will automatically, but not consciously, suppress their authenticity. So the suppression of gut feelings and authenticity is a coping mechanism. That means I am not longer in touch with my needs. I pay no longer attention to my feelings, my emotions. I won’t know what I need. […] It leads to an irresolvable tension between authenticity and attachment, that many children in our society are faced with that results in their self-suppression. One of the possible outcomes is niceness as a coping mechanism. […] The essential self [the inner voice] has not gone away and is calling to us and we don't feel right when we betray it. Video interview by Gabor Maté, M.D.drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Attachment, Disease, and Addiction, presented by Touch the Future, suppressed questions by host, recorded 2012, YouTube film, minute 20:00, 1:19:57 duration, posted 6. January 2015

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. Martin Buber (1878-1965) Austrian-born Jewish religious researcher and philosopher, unsourced

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, Lincoln's Own Stories, Harper & Brothers, 1912

A derivative from the Greek 'charaxo,' meaning to engrave, 'character' makes reference to what is constant in a person, because it has been engraved upon one, and thus to behavioral, emotional and cognitive conditionings. […] In the face of the lack of what he or she needs, the growing child has needed to manipulate, and we may say that character is, from one point of view, a counter-manipulative apparatus. Claudio Naranjo (*1932) Chilean psychiatrist, focused on integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions, co-developer of the enneagram, Character and Neurosis. An Integrative View, Gateways/IDHHB Inc., 1994

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) US American humorist, Freemason, author, speech, 30. March 1901

I must make the important distinction between the rebel and the revolutionary. One is in ineradicable opposition to the other. The revolutionary seeks an external political change, "the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another." The origin of the term is the word revolve, literally meaning a turnover, as the revolution of a wheel. When the conditions under a given government are insufferable some groups may seek to break down that government in the conviction that any new form cannot but be better. Many revolutions, however, simply substitute one kind of government for another, the second no better than the first – which leaves the individual citizen, who has had to endure the inevitable anarchy between the two, worse off than before. Revolution may do more harm than good.The rebel, on the other hand, is "one who opposes authority or restraint: one who breaks with established custom or tradition." [...] He seeks above all an internal change, a change in the attitudes, emotions, and outlook of the people to whom he is devoted. He often seems to be temperamentally unable to accept success and the ease it brings; he kicks against the pricks, and when one frontier is conquered, he soon becomes ill-at-ease and pushes on to the new frontier. He is drawn to the unquiet minds and spirits, for he shares their everlasting inability to accept stultifying control. He may, as Socrates did, refer to himself as the gadfly for the state – the one who keeps the state from settling down into a complacency, which is the first step toward decadance. No matter how much the rebel gives the appearance of being egocentric or of being on an "ego trip," this is a delusion; inwardly the authentic rebel is anything but brash. Rollo Maymay-rollo (1909-1994) US American existential psychologist, author, Power and Innocence. A Search for the Sources of Violence, chapter 11 The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self. The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties: all of us are afraid of loss, in all its forms, all of us, at times, are haunted or overwhelmed by the possibility of a disappearance, and all of us therefore, are one short step away from dishonesty. Every human being dwells intimately close to a door of revelation they are afraid to pass through. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.The ability to speak the truth is as much the ability to describe what it is like to stand in trepidation at this door, as it is to actually go through it and become that beautifully honest spiritual warrior, equal to all circumstances, we would like to become. Honesty is not the revealing of some foundational truth that gives us power over life or another or even the self, but a robust incarnation into the unknown unfolding vulnerability of existence, where we acknowledge how powerless we feel, how little we actually know, how afraid we are of not knowing and how astonished we are by the generous measure of loss that is conferred upon even the most average life.Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story, we do not know where we are in the story; we do not know who is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. Honesty is not a weapon to keep loss and heartbreak at bay, honesty is the outer diagnostic of our ability to come to ground in reality, the hardest attainable ground of all, the place where we actually dwell, the living, breathing frontier where there is no realistic choice between gain or loss. David Whyte (*1955) US American poet, author, Consolations. The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, section "Honesty", Many Rivers Press, 1. January 2015

The whole force of urban-industrialism upon our tastes is to convince us that artificiality is not only inevitable, but better. Theodore Roszak, Ph.D. (1933-2011) US American professor emeritus of history, author, source unknown

A genius is the one most like himself.Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) US American jazz pianist and composer, source unknown

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculouslyawakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creativeprinciple. ⚡Andrew Cohen (*1955) resigned US American enlightenment guru (1986-2013), musician, founder of the dissolved magazine What is Enlightenment? / EnlightenNext, author, source unknown

Literary quotes

Persons with character are as easy to spot as if they were a different color. Self-trust and the perception that virtue is enough is the essence of character. It is the natural tendency to defy falseness and wrong. It speaks the truth, and it is just, generous, hospitable, temperate, despises pettiness, and is scornful of being scorned. Character persists when the mood has passed in which the decision to act was made. Character displays undaunted boldness and a fortitude that does not wear down or out.When the soul is not master of one’s reactions to the world, then that soul is everyone’s dupe. The person of character is not for sale. He does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. He does not need plenty; he can lose with grace. Character is persistent. The person of character makes a choice based on honorable considerations and sticks with it and, no matter what, does not weakly try to reconcile itself with the world.The person of character knows that he is born into a state of war and his own well-being requires that he should not go dancing for peace. Knowing this, he collects himself and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, he takes both his reputation and his own life in his hand, and, with perfect calm and politeness, dares the hangman and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the correctness of his behavior. Toward all external evil, the person of character affirms his ability to cope single-handedly with an infinite army of enemies. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of heroism.No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. The heroic character does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. He is a nonconformist. Acquiescence to the establishment indicates lack of character which must see the house built before they can comprehend the plan.There is a class of individuals which are endowed with character, heroism, insight and virtue. They are usually received with ill-will by the masses. No one can use common beliefs to understand these characters. They cannot be judged from glimpses. They need perspective, as a landscape. You cannot understand them by popular ethics nor by simple observation of their actions. It is said that He who confronts the gods knows heaven. This is the nature of the person of character.The heroic character is a person of truth, master of his own actions, and expresses that mastery in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.People of character are an energetic class, full of courage and of attempts which intimidate their paler brethren. Being up to the demands of their very nature, they can out pray saints, out general veterans and outshine all courtesy. They are comfortable with pirates and scholars.Money is not essential to the aristocrat, which is the true class of those of heroic character. Society among aristocrats is mutually agreeable and stimulating. By swift consent, everything superfluous is dropped, everything graceful is renewed. Good manners are a formidable defense against the common people.The manners of the aristocrat are aped by the commoners, but never understood.Aristocrats never do as the common people do when following fashion. They understand that "fashion" is virtue gone to seed. Aristocrats are sowers, people of fashion are reapers.Each person's position in life depends on some symmetry in his inner makeup. A natural aristocrat will find his way to those of his own kind. Those of good breeding and personal superiority readily find each other. A person should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere with him. A defect in manners or character is usually a defect in perceptions. In addition to personal force and perception, an aristocrat is also good natured, generous and obliging.Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never dawns in which this element is without value. Latent inner power is what we call Character, a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain indemonstrable force, a Familiar of Genius, by whose impulses the hero is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. Character is of a stellar and indiminishable greatness.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) US American philosopher, Unitarian, lecturer, poet, essayist, Essays. First Series, chapter 8 "Heroism", Prudence, 1841

The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies – being human – also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer. Rollo Maymay-rollo (1909-1994) US American existential psychologist, author, Power and Innocence. A Search for the Sources of Violence, chapter 11 The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit"Sometimes" said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful."When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.""Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?""Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."Margery Williams (1881-1944) English-American author, children's novel The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real, George H. Doran Company, 1922

Humor

There's one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx (1890-1977) US American comedian, entertainer, actor, source unknown

Quotes on deception and lying / Täuschen und Lügen

Deceit is the Cinderella of human nature; essential to our humanity but disowned by its perpetrators at every turn. It is normal, natural, and pervasive. It is not, as popular opinion would have it, reducible to mental illness or moral failure. Human society is a network of lies and deceptions that would collapse under the weight of too much honesty.David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., US American associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, University of New England, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, founder of the New England Institute, Why We Lie. The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, S. 2, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition 1. July 2004

The power to deceive is our main weapon in the struggle for social survival. […] Self-deception has been a wonderful gift, but it is now destroying us. Our taste for it resembles our craving for sugar and animal fat. […] The most dangerous forms of self-deception are the collective ones. Patriotism, moral crusades, and religious fervor across nations are like plagues, slicing the world into good and evil, defender and aggressor, right and wrong. David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., US American associate professor of philosophy religious studies, University of New England, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, founder of the New England Institute, Why We Lie. The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, S. ?, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition 1. July 2004

A white lie is not morally bad. It's ethically justifiable to provide white lies. In fact, if you did not provide white lies society would be a very, very difficult place to exist in. […] In order to survive in society you have to provide white lies, because white lies make the other person feel comfortable. Video interview with John Furedy, Canadian emeritus professor of psychology, University of Toronto, Psychology of Lying, presented by Canadian TV station TVO, Ontario, program Think About, YouTube film, minute 2:05, 8:22 minutes duration, posted 7. December 2009

Quotes on truth

They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires. Buddha (563-483 BC) Indian Avatar, teacher of enlightenment, central figure of Buddhism, Dhammapada, anthology of Buddha's teachings, verses 11-12

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8, 31-32 (NT)

Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew 10, 34 (NT)

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth. 2 Corinthians 13, 8 (NT)

Jesus said, Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. And when he finds he shall be troubled. And being troubled he shall marvel.And he shall reign over the totality {and find repose}.Gospel of Thomasverse 002, part of the Biblical apocrypha, 50-140, 350 AD, rediscovered 1945

Personal avowals

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery

We are trying to make our own truth and global truth a seamless web. Gloria Steinemgloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist US magazine "Ms", journalist, writer, source unknown

No one knows the truth. No one knows what, or who I am. And the longer it takes them to discover this, the more famous I will be. Michael Jackson ['King of Pop'] (1958-2009) US American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, entertainer, dancer, philanthropist, 1987

Recommendations

Have confidence in the truth, although you may not be able to comprehend it, although you may suppose its sweetness to be bitter, although you may shrink from it at first. Trust in the Truth. [...] Have faith in the Truth and live it. Buddha Indian avatar, teacher of enlightenment, central figure of Buddhism

If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything.To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.When the deep meaning of things is not understood,the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese American painter, philosopher, poet, writer, 26 prose poetry essays The Prophet, Online version, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, 1980, Laurier Books Ltd., 14. April 2003

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. [Attributed to] Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, aphorism

Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it. Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) US American justice minister, Democratic senator from New York, civil rights activist, younger brother of the 35th US president John F. Kennedy

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth’s superb surprise […]

Let each man choose: will he remain a witting servant of the lies, or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Soviet and Russian historian, imprisoned in the Soviet gulag, dramatist, novelist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1970, The Solzhenitsyn Reader. New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005, ISI Books, 2006, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2nd edition 1. January 2009

When you know that you know that you know you are not going to be removed from that truth. Video interview with Dr. Isa Lindwall (†2009) US American founder of Releasing, Starr Talk, part 1 of 3, presented by host Robert Bruce Starr, YouTube film, minute 5:21, 10:01 minutes duration, posted by lindwallreleasing 7. June 2009

Insights

Life is a comedy. Each day is a wonderful adventure, full of fun and laughter. Most important, remember this: The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. Jamie Buckingham, religious book The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Make You Miserable, 1988

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. Joan of Arc (1412-1431) French Catholic saint, martyr, national heroine of France, trial transcript, cited in: Frank Boott Goodrich, World Famous Women. Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, S. 126, 1881

Wine is strong, the king stronger, women stronger still, but the truth is the strongest. Titus Flavius Josephus [Joseph ben Matityahu] (37-100 AD) 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian, hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry, 20-volume historiographical work Antiquities of the Jews, Book 11 "The Book of Esdras", 93-94 AD

No one in the world can change TRUTH! What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: GOOD and evil, sin and LOVE. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves? Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) German Polish Franciscan friar, martyr, saint of the Catholic Church

Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul [...]. It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.Caroline Myss, Ph.D.Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, five-time New York Times bestseller author, Entering the Castle. An Inner Path to God and Your Soul, S. 66, Free Press, March 2007

Everything can be taken from a man but [...] the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) Austrian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, neurologist, Nazi death camp survivor, meaning researcher, founder of logotherapy, source unknown

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. ⚡Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War (1940-1945) and (1951-1955), racist war criminal, cited in: Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) British Conservative politician, Richard M. Langworth, editor, Churchill by Himself, S. 322, PublicAffairs, 2008

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics, 1921

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. Plato (427-347 BC) Ancient Greek pre-Christian philosopher, founder of the occidental philosophy

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, cited in: Melissa Giovagnoli, Angels in the workplace. Dtories and inspirations for creating a new world of work, 1999

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English mathematician, philosopher, pioneering integralist, metaphysical educator, author, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, "Prologue", 1954, David R. Godine Publisher, 2001

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian Bengali philosopher, musician, painter, playwright, poet, novelist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1913, The Fourfold Way of India, 1924

The Master maintained that what the whole world held to be true is false; so the pioneer is always in a minority of one. He said: "You think of Truth as if it were a formula you can pick up from a book. If you wish to follow Truth you must learn to walk alone."

Joseph exclaimed, "Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding. If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn’t there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?"The master […] said: "There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts." Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss novelist, poet, The Glass Bead Game, novel, S. 83, 1931-1943

The truth is only exposed after the painstaking elimination of what is not true. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish physician, writer

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinions without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) assassinated 35th US American president (1917-1963), speech at Yale University, 11. June 1962

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion – and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion [...] while Truth again reverts to a new minority. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher, theologian, writer, 1849

To tell the truth with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake (1757-1827) English painter, engraver, illustrator, poet

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.Maya Angelou (1928-2014) US American educator, historian, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer, director, poet, best-selling author

A prophet is not a man who tells the future?; he is a man who tells the truth. Harold Kushner (*1935) US American progressive rabbi of Conservative Judaism, author

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Herbert Agar (1897-1980) US American journalist, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History, 1934

A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie. Video presentation by Pamela Meyer, US American Harvard MBA, certified fraud examiner, founder and CEO of Simpatico Networks, leading private label social networking company, author, How to spot a liar, presented by TED Talks Global 2011, minute 1:52, 18:51 minutes duration, filmed July 2011, posted October 2011

Truth is a sword that cuts in all directions. It is a mind that is unprejudiced by religion, philosophy, and cultural conditioning. It is going naked in the stars. Christopher Calder, US American former Osho Sannyasin, cult critic

The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees. [...] But life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher, faculty member, author, 1818

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. Edward R. Murrow KBE (1908-1965) US American broadcast journalist

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence.In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.Heraclitus of Ephesus (535/520-475/460 BC) pre-Socratic Ancient Greek philosopher

Because it is sometimes so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known. Heraclitus of Ephesus (535/520-475/460 BC) pre-Socratic Ancient Greek philosopher

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

Certainly, any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, you will not be able to use the sense of injustice which God planted in your heart to resist a command to do evil. Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate. This has been the cause of all the religious crimes that have flooded the earth. Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) French philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, social critic, proponent of the French Revolution, advocate of civil liberties, freedom of religion, free trade, deist, writer, Questions sur les miracles, 1765, cited in: Norman L. Torrey (1894-1980 ) US American translator, author, Les Philosophes. The Philosophers of the Enlightenment and Modern Democracy, S. 277-278, Capricorn Books, 5th edition 1960

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) US American anthologist, radio broadcaster, journalist, freelance writer

There are not truths, there are just stories. Saying of the Zuni, American Native tribe

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. Noam Chomsky (*1928) US American professor emeritus of linguistics, philosopher, cognitive scientist, social activist

Truth lives a wretched life, but always survives a lie. Anonymous

It's not a matter of what is true but a matter of what is perceived to be true. ⚡Henry Kissinger (*1923) German-born US American political scientist, diplomat, US secretary of state (1969-1977), Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 1973, source unknown

Literary quotes

Who dares to call the child by its right name?The few who have some part of it descried,Yet fools enough to guard not their full hearts,Revealing to riffraff both their insight and their feeling,Men have of old burned at the stake and crucified.Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) German polymath, poet, playwright, dramatist, novelist, drama Faust. A Tragedy V. (text) [1808], Thomas Boosey and Sons, London, 1821, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976

My wish for you […] is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Soviet and Russian historian, imprisoned in the Soviet gulag, dramatist, novelist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1970, novel In the First Circle, 1968, Harper Perennial, uncensored edition 2009

Quotes on lies and lying

Recommendations

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Adolf Hitler ['Führer and Reichskanzler'] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945)

A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. Donald James Wheal [Thomas Dresden] (1931-2008) British scriptwriter, television writer, non-fiction writer, novelist, source unknown

I think that rnost often lies fail because the liar has not adequately prepared the false line he or she intends to maintain. One obvious example is when the liar forgets what he has said on one occasion and thoroughly contradicts himself on another occasion. Paul Ekman, Ph.D.paulekman.com (*1934) US American professor of psychology, anthropologist, pioneer in the study of emotions, UCSF, author, Lying And Nonverbal Behavior. Theoretical Issues And New Findings, presented by Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, volume 12, issue 3, S. 164 (163-175), Human Sciences Press, fall 1988

Usually lies about emotions involve more than just fabricating an emotion which is not felt. They also require concealing an emotion which is actually being experienced. Concealment often goes hand in hand with fabrication. The liar feigns emotion to mask signs of the emotion to be concealed. Paul Ekman, Ph.D.paulekman.com (*1934) US American professor of psychology, anthropologist, pioneer in the study of emotions, UCSF, author, Lying And Nonverbal Behavior. Theoretical Issues And New Findings, presented by Journal Of Nonverbal Behavior, issue 12(3), S. 165, Human Sciences Press, fall 1988

Lies which are not about emotions may be betrayed by emotions the liar feels about the process of lying. Chief among these feelings about lying are the fear of being caught, guilt about lying, and what l have called duping delight, the pleasure and excitement of putting one over. Not all lies will call forth these emotions. Paul Ekman, Ph.D.paulekman.com (*1934) US American professor of psychology, anthropologist, pioneer in the study of emotions, UCSF, author, Lying And Nonverbal Behavior. Theoretical Issues And New Findings, presented by Journal Of Nonverbal Behavior, issue 12(3), S. 165, Human Sciences Press, fall 1988

There is research showing that the people who are most popular and the most socially skilled are the best at lying. And that is because most of the time we don't want to hear the truth. If you think about someone who is always telling you the truth, 100% of the time. That person is blunt, is seen as not someone who is not someone who we want to have in our lives. So in fact, we very often welcome these lies. Audio interview with Robert Feldman, Ph.D., US American psychology professor, University of Massachusetts, leading researcher on lying and deception, author, audio MP3, presented by WNYC Radio, minute 12:06, 20:27 minutes duration, Robert Feldman on The Liar in Your Life, YouTube film, 5:13 minutes duration, posted by wnycradio 3. August 2009

Life is suffering. And suffering can make you resentful, murderous and then genocidal, if you take it far enough. [Walls of luxury and delusion will fall apart eventually.] The truth is the antidote to suffering. And the reason for that is because the truth puts reality behind you so that you can face the reality that is coming straight at you without becoming weak and resentful and wishing for the destruction of being, because that’s the final hell. [...] The final hell is your soul wishing for the destruction of everything, because it’s too painful, and you are too bitter, and that happens to people all the time. Video interview with Jordan Peterson, Ph.D. (*1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, professor of psychology, University of Toronto, political scientist, author, Joe Rogan Experience #877 – Jordan Peterson, presented by The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, host Joe Rogan (*1967) US American comedian and sports color commentator, YouTube film, minute 2:26:32, 2:50:05 minutes duration, 28. November 2016

Life is hard, it’s no wonder people get corrupted by it. It's not an easy thing to live in a truthful manner, but the alternative is hell. […] I learned a lot about the importance of spoken truth as the counterveiling force against tyranny and authoritarianism. It isn't an alternative political structure that’s counterveiling force, it's spoken truth that’s the counterveiling force. […] The ability to speak your truth is the bullwark against hell. And losing your job that's nothing compared to where things can go, when they go badly. […] Most people don't understand the risks of [pathological] silence. Video interview with Jordan Peterson, Ph.D. (*1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, professor of psychology, University of Toronto, political scientist, author, Joe Rogan Experience #877 – Jordan Peterson, presented by The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, host Joe Rogan (*1967) US American comedian and sports color commentator, YouTube film, minute 2:37:33, 2:50:05 minutes duration, 28. November 2016

A white lie is not morally bad. It's ethically justifiable to provide white lies. In fact, if you did not provide white lies society would be a very, very difficult place to exist in. […] In order to survive in society you have to provide white lies, because white lies make the other person feel comfortable. Video interview with John Furedy, Canadian emeritus professor of psychology, University of Toronto, Psychology of Lying, presented by Canadian TV station TVO, Ontario, program Think About, YouTube film, minute 2:05, 8:22 minutes duration, posted 7. December 2009

Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon, was fighting tears at this moment of his speech.

Today we have with us a group of students among America's best, to you we say: We've only completed a beginning, we leave you [...] much that is undone. There are great ideas undiscovered. Breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth's protective layers. Neil Armstrong (*1930) US American aviator, astronaut, professor of aerospace engineering, Cryptic speech hinting to a cover up, 25th anniversary of the Moon Landing, White House, 1994, YouTube clip, 0:50 minutes duration, posted 22. August 2007

Great liars are also great magicians.Adolf Hitler ['Führer and Reichskanzler'] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945)

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler ['Führer and Reichskanzler'] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945)

This "big lie" has become something we cannot ignore – unless we wall ourselves off from conventional society altogether. Adolf Hitler ['Führer and Reichskanzler'] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945)

Quotes by David R. Hawkins

Every civilization is characterized by native principles. If the principles of a civilization are noble, it succeeds; if they are selfish, it falls. As a term, "principles" may sound abstract, but the consequences of principles are quite concrete. If we examine principles we will see that they reside in an invisible realm within consciousness itself. Although we can point out examples of honesty in the world, honesty itself as an organizing principle central to civilization is nowhere independently existent in the external world. True power, then, emanates from consciousness itself; what we see is a visible manifestation of the invisible. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, S. ?, Hay House, February 2002

The general human experience throughout time has been that true, inner self-honesty at great depth is possible only with God's help, for understandably, the ego alone is quite unlikely to cooperate with its own demise and extinction as the moving, dominant force in one's life. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Transcending Levels of Consciousness, S. 244, 2006